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“What do you want? Who are you?”
“Us? Oh, we’re the men that are going to take your ass in and prove what you were doing. The whole world will know that you’ve attempted to torture kids, all for the sake of your sick experiments.”
“It’s science! I wouldn’t expect you to understand.”
“Try me,” said Hannu. “I’m a doctor. In fact, I am an MD and a PhD. I’m quite intelligent. Published, experienced researcher, I even own a hospital in my own country. Explain it to me.”
“We’re creating men and women that won’t feel fear. Can’t you see how beneficial this will be? Our military will no longer feel fear.”
“You mean North Korea’s military,” said Nine. The man stared at him, shock showing easily on his face. “Yes, we know. Cao is coming tomorrow. We’re looking forward to meeting him.”
“He won’t meet with you. Only me.”
“Because you’re that important, is that it?” frowned Ghost. “You’re nothing but a spoiled, entitled kid with too much time in a classroom and no understanding of how the world truly works. You don’t know about soldiers and sailors. You know nothing of our existence.”
“You’re soldiers?” he frowned. “Then you’ll understand! What if you had no fear? Imagine the things you could accomplish.”
“We’ve accomplished plenty, and fear is what has kept us alive. You’re attempting to strip what is most important to any man or woman in a position such as ours. You’re attempting to make us unafraid, unaware, and undeserving. Undeserving of the right to wear an American military uniform.”
“It doesn’t matter! Someone else sees value in my work, and I’m going to send it to him,” he said, proudly raising his phone. The group of men smirked, looking at one another, shaking their heads.
“You’re not sending anything,” said Ian.
“Watch me.” He hit the send button to release all of the data to Cao, except nothing was happening. The circle was spiraling on his phone, but it was as if he’d lost all connection. “What’s happening? No! No, what did you do?”
“Us? Oh, we put a little fear into you. See, we figured out what your father was afraid of. Silly little fire ants. Strange thing, that is. He was so terrified he ended up having a heart attack. Well, it was that and the reaction to the poison from the thousands of ants.”
“You killed my father!”
“Damn right, we did,” said Gaspar. “Then we found out what you’re afraid of.”
“I’m afraid of nothing,” he snapped, like a child.
“That’s just it. You’re afraid of nothing. You’re afraid that no one will know you, no one will admire your work, no one will respect you. You’re afraid of becoming nothing.”
He turned to try and run, but there were men everywhere, encircling him. His heart was pounding so hard he could barely catch his breath.
“This is stupid! It was nothing except a little experiment on kids. Just stupid fucking kids with nothing better to do than get a tattoo. It was all too easy! They didn’t get hurt.”
“Didn’t get hurt? They’ll never be the same. You didn’t think about that. The ones that you terrified to the point of horror will never be the same. Never. No one except Christina.”
He flinched at the name, frowning as if he’d lost a prize Pitbull.
“That’s right. You couldn’t break her, could you? No, she was much stronger than you or your father. She won. She won the entire fucking game.”
“Money. I have money,” he said, realizing he was out of options.
“I don’t need your money.”
“What do you want?”
“Cao.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
While the NOPD, FBI, Homeland, and CIA hauled Junior away, they fought over who would take the credit for the arrest. After all, Gray Wolf didn’t want that prestige. The entire way to the police car, Shaw was screaming about his rights and that his work was for the scientific community.
“Anyone familiar with General Cao?” asked Nine.
